Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server clustering solutions enable enterprises to dramatically improve the availability, scalability, and manageability of virtually any business-critical system. Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook is the first book to deliver expert, start-to-finish guidance for planning, deploying, and managing Windows 2000 clusters. Libertone starts by reviewing Windows 2000's key clustering concepts and architecture, and the key issues associated with deploying clustering in the enterprise. Walk through building a cluster, mastering failover, load balancing, dual-NIC cluster configurations, Fibre Channel-based clusters, and more. Review real-world cluster configuration and deployment in SQL Server, Exchange Server, and IIS Web/eCommerce applications; then, learn how to manage clustering from both the Cluster Administrator utility and the command line. Libertone helps readers choose the best hardware platforms for clustering, and even presents hard-to-find information and sample code for cluster-aware application development using Microsoft's new clustering APIs.
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Preface
A cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to run a common set of applications and provide the image of a single system to the client and application. The computers are physically connected by cables and programmatically connected by cluster software. Computer clusters have been built and used for decades. In fact, in the mid eighties Dave Libertone managed and taught VAX Cluster technologies for Digital Equipment Corporation and it's customers.
Today, as Web-based applications continue to gain importance, it becomes increasingly necessary to host these applications on a flexible platform that provides scalability, reliability, and availability. Clustering technologies can satisfy these needs, providing a solid infrastructure on which to deploy demanding Web applications with confidence.
Microsoft first designed the Cluster service for the Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system. Dave's first book on the subject, Windows NT Cluster Server Guidebook, was written to deliver expert guidance for planning, installing, managing, troubleshooting and optimizing Windows NT clusters. This book quickly became a bestseller!
Windows 2000 Advanced and Datacenter Servers provide integrated Cluster Services to deliver higher levels of service and availability. Microsoft Cluster Services technology monitors the health of standard applications and services and can automatically recover mission-critical data and applications from many common types of failure. This remarkable new book, written in Dave's highly readable and instructive style, is a straightforward and practical guide for anyone who wants to exploit and learn these new features to quickly create, manage, and utilize high-availability servers. About the Book
Several features of Windows 2000 clustering, such as load balancing services designed to enable the even distribution of network traffic across a clustered servers, are introduced early in the book. A step-by-step discussion of Server software installation follows, including a discussion on fiber channel bus, dual NIC configuration, and instructions on how to build a cluster consisting of several computers. A real-world case study of an E-Commerce Web Server demonstrates the implementation of Cluster resources. Detailed sections follow this on implementing Internet Information Server 4.0, SQL Server 7.0, and Exchange Server in a cluster. The remainder of the book contains an expanded section on cluster troubleshooting and detailed information cluster-specific performance issues.
From the Back Cover
Start building Windows 2000 clusters today!
* Windows 2000 clustering for maximum performance and reliability!
* Planning, installation, configuration, optimization, and more
* Clustering SQL Server, Exchange Server, IIS, and eCommerce applications
* Includes detailed troubleshooting techniques
* Cluster-aware application development — including sample code on CD-ROM!
* Choose the best hardware designs for your cluster
* Walk step-by-step through clustering SQL Server, Exchange Server, and Internet Information Server
* Implement cluster-aware software on Microsoft Windows 2000 platforms
* Master the latest Windows load balancing features
* Troubleshoot the most common Windows 2000 and NT 4 clustering problems
Foreword by Andrew Scoppa
UCI Corporation
Software Technical Training
Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server clustering solutions enable you to dramatically improve the availability, scalability, and manageability of virtually any enterprise or Web system. One book delivers expert guidance for planning, installing, managing and optimizing Windows 2000 clusters: Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook by David Libertone.
Start by reviewing Windows 2000's key clustering concepts and architecture, and the key issues associated with deploying clustering in your enterprise. Walk through building your cluster — understanding key options such as dual-NIC cluster configurations and Fibre Channel-based clusters. Master real-world cluster configuration in database, messaging, Web and eCommerce applications; then, learn how to manage clustering from both the Cluster Administrator utility and the command line.
You'll master powerful cluster optimization techniques, including load balancing, failovers, and more. Mr. Libertone even provides detailed coverage of Microsoft's Cluster API and writing cluster-aware software for Windows 2000 environments. If your application needs all the performance and scalability Windows 2000 can muster, you need clustering — and you need Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook. About the CD-ROM
CD-ROM includes a library of code samples demonstrating how to build cluster-aware Windows 2000 applications.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
DOESN'T COVER EXCHANGE 2000 OR SQL 2000,
By A Customer
This review is from: Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Cluster (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book gives a good explanation of Windows 2000 Clustering in general. Unfortunately I bought the book not only to learn general info but for info on clustering Exchange 2000 and SQL 2000. The author is still writing about Clustering Exchange 5.5 and SQL 7.0 I was very disappointed. Therefore if your intentions are to cluster these two products I would look for another book or Microsoft Technet.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A so-so resource,
By DavidH1964 (Annapolis MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Cluster (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book spends almost the first half in just clustering theory. Anyone who is getting into this should look elsewhere for that (email me and I can direct you too many online resources - FREE!). The rest of the book gives overveiws to setting up different types of apps and services for a clustrering environment. I gained nothing really out of it that I did not already pick-up from MS TIDs and manuals.As a basic quick reference resource (if too lazy to refer to online docs), then go for it. Otherwise save your money. Books I have found for Novell and LINUX systems have always been far better resources, convering far more information. The typical MS resource I have always fouund to be weak and severly lacking.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected,
By Amjad M. Afana (Southgate, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Cluster (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I got a copy of this book hoping to find answers to some problems I was facing installing and configuring a SQL Server on a cluster in an Active- Active setup. I was disappointed after I read the whole book and did not find what I needed. Mr. Libertone should have explained the creation of some cluster resources in more detail. For example, the DTC resource creation was covered only in a half a page. Also, when it comes to file shares and dependencies; not very useful info there. The SQL chapter did not go into much detail, especially installing SP2. To be honest, I did not learn anything new reading this book. Even that idea about increasing the timer on boot-up on one of the nodes, I thought of that long before I read this book. To be fair to the author, this book might be useful if you know absolutely nothing about cluster server and would like to learn easy implementation and setup.
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